Harlem Renaissance in the American West

<p>The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in the Harlem Renaissance between 1914 and 1940, have been overlooked and neglected as locations of scholarship and research. </p><p><em>Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro's Western Experience</em> will change the way students and scholars of the Harlem Renaissance view the efforts of artists, musicians, playwrights, club owners, and various other players in African American communities all over the American West to participate fully in the cultural renaissance that took hold during that time. </p> <p>CONTENTS</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Introduction </p><p>The Harlem Renaissance in the West</p><p>Cary D. Wintz and Bruce A. Glasrud</p><p>Chapters</p><p>1. Harlem in Houston</p><p>Charles Orson Cook</p><p>2. North Texas’ Black Art and Literature During the 1920s and 1930s: "The </p><p>Current Is Much Stronger"</p><p>Michael Phillips</p><p>3. The Western Black Renaissance in the Kansas City Region</p><p>Marc Rice</p><p>4. The New Negro Renaissance in Los Angeles, 1920-1940</p><p>Douglas Flamming</p><p>5. "All God’s Children Got Swing": The Black Renaissance in the San Francisco </p><p>Bay Area, 1906-1941</p><p>Douglas Henry Daniels</p><p>6. Harlem Renaissance in Oklahoma </p><p>Jean Van Delinder</p><p>7. The New Negro Renaissance in Omaha and Lincoln, 1910-1940</p><p>Richard M. Breaux</p><p>8. Harlem Renaissance West: Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Twin Cities of </p><p>Minnesota</p><p>Carolyn Wedin</p><p>9. The San Antonio/Austin Renaissance: Where "the Daddies of Jazz" </p><p>Remembered the Alamo</p><p>Jeanette N. Passty</p><p>10. The Black Renaissance in the Desert Southwest</p><p>Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz</p><p>11. Harlem Renaissance in Denver </p><p>George H. Junne, Jr.</p><p>12. Black Renaissance in Helena and Laramie: Hatched on Top of the Rocky </p><p>Mountains</p><p>Charlotte Hinger</p><p>13. A Renaissance in Seattle and Portland</p><p>Kimberley Mangun</p><p>14. Harlem Renaissance in San Diego: New Negroes and Community</p><p>Charles P. Toombs</p><p>Harlem Renaissance in the West: A Selected Bibliography</p><p>Contributors</p><p>Index</p>